While I believe that this achievement is on par of the above, if any of the Licensed users of ZipMagic members of the board would receive a similar letter, it would be nice if they could publish it here, somehow just entering the Hall of Fame seems a tadbit less relevant than a targeted e-mail.

The expected UPROAR of indignation about censorship on TabletPcReview on Slashdot:

This story makes me sad... It's a good thing to be passionate, but he have to learn the limit and to temper himself, and to learn the limit between announcement and advertisement.
So, even if I dislike censorship, I agree with the choice of Nuno.

This also confirms my idea that mixing job and passion often leads to great disillusionments...

This also confirms my idea that mixing job and passion often leads to great disillusionments...

Well, but here we are not talking of ordinary people, I would guess that when you invent something that is such an innovative breakthrough and you additionally manage to transform your original idea into a company that becomes the technology leader in the relevant industry:

Interests:I'm just a quiet simple person with a very quiet simple life living one day at a time..

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Posted 29 September 2015 - 08:57 AM

Still sad about what happened, Simon was not your average spammer in which we are quick to pull the trigger. It got quite annoying for the folks here to see all that "magic" advertisements about his software, but in overall I'm sad it got this point both here and in other places around the web that got tired of him.

This thing about public shaming of forum sites and administrators from where he got expelled is just plain silly.

Interests:I'm just a quiet simple person with a very quiet simple life living one day at a time..

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Posted 01 October 2015 - 07:59 AM

Great. Everyone say "thanks" to Wonko. He resurrected this old thread, then Simon got a couple hundred visits back to his site and decided to register a few users that "magically" posted about the wonders of his tooling.

Wonko, I'd prefer not having to clean up spam every. Spoils that nice cup of coffee that one enjoys when starting the day. If you keep bringing the "magic" topics to surface then you'll risk being appointed as reboot forum janitor ad eternum.

Well, for the record, first Simon decided to re-register as a new user (or two) in order to promote the new groundbreaking Zempel-Liv-Simon compression and only then Wonko decided to post again on this thread updating it with some news. (it is not exactly the same thing)

And Simon is insisting on it, right now he is vishein from Netherlands:

It seems like he is wanting to have a thread shilling or astroturfing (directly or indirectly) for his software as top (more recent one) in Windows 10 sub-forum, at all costs.

Actually given the average (limited) number of neurons someone actually using (or worse liking) Windows 10 has, it is likely that he will manage to lure quite a few peeps into buying the program.

On the other hand, posts that not explicitly name the software package or miss a direct link to his site are probably ineffective on the intended audience .

It sounds more like he is trying - somehow - to give to the software some (non-existing) background of "popularity" or of "talked about", maybe in order to gain some relevance/presence online.

He managed to have Ed Bott (and I am saying all) actually review somehow positively a previous version of the software in the past, maybe this way he will manage to find a more sentient "big name" reviewer do the same.

simonking and magic zip have been creating accounts and spamming the DonationCoder forum like mad for the last couple of days -- we've probably banned 50+users and their associated posts.

I did a quick search and found this thread -- which even mentions the weird run-ins we've had with simon king in the past.

it is hard to believe how unhinged this all is -- it's not the efforts of a normal company trying to get spam posted, it's clearly something else -- if i had to guess its an attempt to get a ton of negative publicity in the belief that this will help them. either that or it's just an unhinged person. regardless, eventually this is likely to blow up in the face of this company, and rather soon.

anyway, i'm treating the recent massive spam attack on our forum as a good thing -- it's kind of like we hired someone to help us refine our spammer banning tools and streamline them, and make sure its painless for us to deal with a high volume spam attack. so it's all good

anyway, i'm treating the recent massive spam attack on our forum as a good thing -- it's kind of like we hired someone to help us refine our spammer banning tools and streamline them, and make sure its painless for us to deal with a high volume spam attack. so it's all good